Penguin Modern Box Set

Collectif

ISBN 10: 0241343232 / ISBN 13: 9780241343234

Published by Penguin Classics, 2018

About this Item

First edition first impression of this set of 50 small format paperbacks in a slipcase, the books are as new and unread, the case has some minor scuffmarks and soft bumps to some corners. Please see pics.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1711622814466

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Penguin Modern Box Set
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241343232
• ISBN 13: 9780241343234
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire.

From the Back Cover

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.